Teachable Moments: Lyndon Johnson called for a 'Great Society'

10:30 PM,
May 21, 2013

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President Lyndon Baines Johnson delivered his first State of the Union address, calling for a "war on poverty." The U.S. surgeon general declared, for the first time, that smoking was hazardous to your health. Developers unveiled the design of their visionary office complex on the south end of Manhattan Island, which they named the World Trade Center. The 24th Amendment to our constitution was ratified, eliminating poll taxes and other conditions on the right to vote in elections.

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